BEHVO 465 MIDTERM UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Verbal Behavior definition
Answer:
Behavior that is reinforced by another person. It involves a focus on the speaker
and movement of an organism.
Question:
2. Definition of Mand
Answer:
An elementary verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by an MO and
followed by specific reinforcement
Question:
3. Definition of Tact
Answer:
An elementary verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by a nonverbal
discriminative stimulus and followed by generalized conditioned reinforcement.
Question:
4. Definition of Echoic
Answer:
An elementary verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by a verbal
discriminative stimulus that has point-to-point correspondence and formal
similarity with the response. Learning to repeat the words of others is essential to
acquiring the other elementary verbal operants.
Question:
5. Definition of intraverbal
Answer:
Verbal response evoked by a verbal stimulus and reinforced by generalized social
conditioned reinforcement
No point-to-point correspondence between the antecedent stimulus and
response product
,Question:
6. Definition of Textual
Answer:
An elementary verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by a verbal
discriminative stimulus that has point-to-point correspondence between the
stimulus and the response product, but does not have formal similarity between
the stimulus and the response.
Reading printed words involves the decoding of words, however reading
comprehension involves many other behaviors such as intraverbal behavior and
receptive language.
Question:
7. Free Will
Answer:
Says that we have the choice to engage in behaviors and what happens inside us
controls our behavior. aka mental activity
we cant study it scientifically or use interventions to change it
Question:
8. Determinism
Answer:
our choices are already made because they are determined by a learning history
and are lawful. Behavior is controlled by genes and history of reinforcement. We
study it scientifically and use interventions that manipulate consequences to
change it
Question:
9. Challenge of free will
Answer:
if we are always free to choose than intentions base don manipulating learning
history would have no effect and our field would be useless
Question:
10. Challenge of determinism
Answer:
If any behavior is completely determined and out of our control so is all behavior
which means nothing is in our control in terms of choice. This does not align with
everyday language of making decisions.
Question:
11. Value altering Effects of MO
Answer:
change the value of something as a reinforcer
, Question:
12. Behavior altering effects of MO
Answer:
Change the future frequency of behavior
Question:
13. Explain the multiple functions of a single stimulus,
particularly a conditioned reinforcer and punisher
Answer:
A behavior altering event typically has more than one effect. Ex: A rat is taught to
pull a cord to receive food. A buzzer sounds at the same time the cord is pulled.
The buzzer will have 2 operant effects. It is an SD that evokes the cord pulling and
a conditioned reinforcer that increases the frequency of the rat pulling the cord
Question:
14. Motivating operation
Answer:
alters the effectiveness of a stimulus as a reinforcer(value altering effect) and
alters the current frequency of a behavior that has been reinforced by that
stimulus (behavior altering effect)
Question:
15. Establishing operation
Answer:
increases the value of a stimulus as a reinforcers and increases frequency of
behavior
Question:
16. Abolishing operation
Answer:
decreases the value of a stimulus as a reinforcer and decreases frequency of
behavior
Question:
17. Difference between MO and SD
Answer:
MO alter the value of a stimulus as a reinforcer
SD signal the availability of a stimulus as a reinforcer
The same: both antecedents and related to operant
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Verbal Behavior definition
Answer:
Behavior that is reinforced by another person. It involves a focus on the speaker
and movement of an organism.
Question:
2. Definition of Mand
Answer:
An elementary verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by an MO and
followed by specific reinforcement
Question:
3. Definition of Tact
Answer:
An elementary verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by a nonverbal
discriminative stimulus and followed by generalized conditioned reinforcement.
Question:
4. Definition of Echoic
Answer:
An elementary verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by a verbal
discriminative stimulus that has point-to-point correspondence and formal
similarity with the response. Learning to repeat the words of others is essential to
acquiring the other elementary verbal operants.
Question:
5. Definition of intraverbal
Answer:
Verbal response evoked by a verbal stimulus and reinforced by generalized social
conditioned reinforcement
No point-to-point correspondence between the antecedent stimulus and
response product
,Question:
6. Definition of Textual
Answer:
An elementary verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by a verbal
discriminative stimulus that has point-to-point correspondence between the
stimulus and the response product, but does not have formal similarity between
the stimulus and the response.
Reading printed words involves the decoding of words, however reading
comprehension involves many other behaviors such as intraverbal behavior and
receptive language.
Question:
7. Free Will
Answer:
Says that we have the choice to engage in behaviors and what happens inside us
controls our behavior. aka mental activity
we cant study it scientifically or use interventions to change it
Question:
8. Determinism
Answer:
our choices are already made because they are determined by a learning history
and are lawful. Behavior is controlled by genes and history of reinforcement. We
study it scientifically and use interventions that manipulate consequences to
change it
Question:
9. Challenge of free will
Answer:
if we are always free to choose than intentions base don manipulating learning
history would have no effect and our field would be useless
Question:
10. Challenge of determinism
Answer:
If any behavior is completely determined and out of our control so is all behavior
which means nothing is in our control in terms of choice. This does not align with
everyday language of making decisions.
Question:
11. Value altering Effects of MO
Answer:
change the value of something as a reinforcer
, Question:
12. Behavior altering effects of MO
Answer:
Change the future frequency of behavior
Question:
13. Explain the multiple functions of a single stimulus,
particularly a conditioned reinforcer and punisher
Answer:
A behavior altering event typically has more than one effect. Ex: A rat is taught to
pull a cord to receive food. A buzzer sounds at the same time the cord is pulled.
The buzzer will have 2 operant effects. It is an SD that evokes the cord pulling and
a conditioned reinforcer that increases the frequency of the rat pulling the cord
Question:
14. Motivating operation
Answer:
alters the effectiveness of a stimulus as a reinforcer(value altering effect) and
alters the current frequency of a behavior that has been reinforced by that
stimulus (behavior altering effect)
Question:
15. Establishing operation
Answer:
increases the value of a stimulus as a reinforcers and increases frequency of
behavior
Question:
16. Abolishing operation
Answer:
decreases the value of a stimulus as a reinforcer and decreases frequency of
behavior
Question:
17. Difference between MO and SD
Answer:
MO alter the value of a stimulus as a reinforcer
SD signal the availability of a stimulus as a reinforcer
The same: both antecedents and related to operant
